In summary, Murata offers three varieties of power inductors. Within the three varieties Murata utilizes both round and flat wire technologies to provide high currents, lower DCR values, and higher inductance values. The multi-layer power inductors form a low profile, cost friendly series by embedding the inductor coil on layers of ferrite magnetic material. The more traditional ferrite wire-wound power inductors use a wire wrapped magnetic ferrite core to produce the inductive characteristics. Metal-alloy wire-wound power inductors utilize a metal composite core material to provide the least saturation loss and excellent electromagnetic flux leakage shielding, in a very attractive package size.